The 5 best Chicago Med season 3 episodes

5. Speak Your Truth

The Chicago Med season premiere “Speak Your Truth” has to be included on this list if only for the reason that it laid the groundwork for so much that happened in the rest of the season. Without it there’s a lot of other things that wouldn’t have come to fruition until much later, if at all.

This was the episode that spotlighted the season’s new romances: that Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) and Dr. Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto) finally started dating after two seasons of unresolved pining, while Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee) and nurse April Sexton (Yaya DaCosta) also had struck up a relationship after the kiss they’d shared at the end of last season.

“Speak Your Truth” also started a storyline that would play out through the whole first half of Chicago Med season 3, with Dr. Sarah Reese (Rachel DiPillo) suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder related to the shooting of her mentor Dr. Daniel Charles (Oliver Platt).

Though we’re docking a few points because the premiere pretty much skipped over Charles’ recovery in favor of making it a Reese story, we do love how it took a different narrative approach and showed us the prosecution of the man who shot Charles.

Not only because it’s stuff we have never seen on the show before, but because it gave us an all too brief appearance by Peter Stone (Philip Winchester) in what would be his last One Chicago scenes before he jumped over to Law & Order: SVU. “Speak Your Truth” took chances, and it turned the page in Chicago Med history.